Word: rimbaud
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...music on Keineg's debut album, O Seasons O Castles, is folksy and hypnotic, the lyrics both heartfelt and cerebral. The title is from an Arthur Rimbaud poem that reads, "O Seasons, O Castles/ What soul is without sin!" Several songs on the CD explore sin, including Franklin, which is about a woman breaking away from an abusive partner. "I'm going to find me a good man who don't drink/ who don't shout/ who don't throw my prized possessions about," sings Keineg, who has a throaty alto with just a touch of mysterious smokiness...
...Liverpool's own angry young man and the sole creator of this proto-punk, ur-grunge band (don't you love revisionism?). And Stu, preening moodily, was John's closet love god -- before a brain tumor drove Stu mad and killed him, thus establishing his credentials as a rock Rimbaud...
...readers," he once lamented, "but thousands of voyeurs." He might have added that it was he who raised the blinds and staged the spectacle -- a rabbity-looking thief rhapsodizing about transvestites and jailyard toughs. Not even the revered felons of French literary tradition, the poetes maudits from Villon to Rimbaud, had been so devoted to the triumvirate of personal virtues -- thievery, homosexuality and betrayal -- in Genet's great novels. First the French, then the world, couldn't tear their eyes away...
...with all-life binges of alcohol, drugs and heavy sex. "I'm rich and famous, smart and pretty," he must have mused. "Now how can I screw it up?" He did so by speeding up the physical and mental decay that aging forces on mere mortals. Like his hero Rimbaud, he raced death to the finish line. When he died in 1971, at 27, he was ravaged, depleted, spent. But for a few years Morrison was Satan's seraph -- the golden stud of '60s rock...
...only a matter of time before McGuane looked through the bottom of a shot glass and glimpsed his own mortality. Observes longtime friend and fellow novelist Jim Harrison (Legends of the Fall): "Like a lot of writers, we started out reading Rimbaud and Dostoyevsky, and you think that in order to write you also have to be partly crazy. And later on it occurs to us that we're going to die unless we behave." Realizing that "my streak of self- destructiveness had to end," McGuane quit drinking and poured himself into writing. Two novels -- Nobody's Angel...